Month: July 2014

After reports were release back in May that the Seattle Seahawks player Richard Sherman had become the highest paid cornerback in the league with a new 4 year contract extension worth $65 million, Cleveland Brown’s Joe Haden quickly stole the shine a week later by announcing his 5 year contract extension which was worth $68 million. While Haden was able to hold onto that title for the past 2 ½ months, he will now be one upped by fellow NFL corner back Patrick Peterson.

After negotiating since February, last night the Arizona Cardinals released a statement announcing a contract extension with Patrick Peterson. Although the team’s announcement did not specify the pay, Peterson followed up via Twitter with a statement of his own stating that the deal is worth $70 million, with $48 million guaranteed-making Peterson the highest paid cornerback in the NFL. The 5 year contract extension will end in 2020. Patrick originally signed a 4 year contract with undisclosed terms back in 2011 after being selected 5th overall in the draft pick. It was reported this morning that Peterson received a $15.3 million signing bonus.

(Creator of Boondocks) Aaron McGruder’s “Black Jesus” hasn’t even aired and already Christians are up in arms, demanding that the show be canceled. The Christian activist network One Million Moms and a flurry of pastors have taken offense at the character.

In the show, Black Jesus lives in Compton, California and goes on a “daily mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood with the help of his small but loyal group of downtrodden followers.”

David A. Rogers, pastor of the House of Prayer for All Nations Ministries in Chicago, Illinois, calls the show “utter foolishness and disrespectful” and wrote a letter to the Turner Broadcasting system expressing his outrage.

OF COURSE WE WOULD THESE CRAZY ASS WHITE RELIGIOUS POEPLE EXPRESSING DISGUST FOR THE SHOW. Would it be better if Jesus lived in South Dakota and were portrayed as the stringy haired, pale face and blue eyed image that has poisoned the minds of so many?

Aaron McGruder is not one of these who conforms to White America’s definition of a patriotic citizen. Mr. McGruder knows of the lies taught across United States lands in our history classes. He knows the lies told on mainstream TV about foreign affairs and governmental hypocrisy.

To the religious people out there who don’t question much or anything – I hope one day your minds will be open to the truth. There is a God | Higher Being(s) as we cannot be that is all. But, we don’t know all the answers, and that is the beauty of life.

I follow all of his music and am waiting to see him make it to the top or even just as a successful artist at the underground level. Chris Ness is from Moreno Valley, Ca and has a sound which very few hip hop artists possess these days. It’s been leaked that he will have a video for this track soon and I will be the first to post it.

The funeral was held in New York City for Eric Garner, an African-American father of six who died after police placed him in a chokehold. Police say they confronted Garner because he was selling bootleg cigarettes. Graphic video of the incident shows an officer pulling Garner to the ground by the neck and then holding his head against the pavement. As other officers crowd on top of Garner, he repeatedly says, “I can’t breathe.” Garner soon stops moving. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. On Wednesday, Bishop Kareem Evans addressed mourners at Brooklyn’s Bethel Baptist Church.

“This is an awesome task because Brother Eric is not only a friend, but he is family. Not only is he family, but he is one that you consider close family.”

The officer who used the chokehold, Daniel Pantaleo, has been moved to desk duty and ordered to turn in his badge and gun pending investigations. Three men have sued Pantaleo in the past two years for unlawful, racially motivated arrests. The New York City Police Department says it also plans to overhaul training procedures in the wake of Garner’s death. Four emergency response workers who were at the scene have been suspended without pay.

An executive order banning workplace discrimination against LGBT people employed by the federal government or firms with federal contracts.

President Obama: “It doesn’t make much sense, but today in America millions of our fellow citizens wake up and go to work with the awareness that they could lose their job, not because of anything they do or fail to do, but because of who they are: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. And that’s wrong.”